If Sen. Sanders wins the nomination, some Democrats worry President Trump will hammer him on his long-buried words in defense of governments in Nicaragua, Cuba and the USSR.
In spring 1988, just after marrying, Sanders embarked on what he later called"a very strange honeymoon" to the Soviet Union.
The group visited Moscow and Leningrad before heading to Yaroslavl, where Sanders can be seen in video singing"This Land Is Your Land" after a stint in a sauna. In March 1989, Sanders and his wife traveled to Cuba for an eight-day visit. He had said he wanted to meet with Fidel Castro, but in the end, the highest-ranking official he saw was the mayor of Havana.
"When Castro came to power, they did a lot to eliminate illiteracy in that country. So yes, you know, you don't have to praise everything about Fidel Castro," he said."It's a dictatorship. It's a poor country. But have some good things been done in Cuba? Yes.
"It's tough for any public figure to really give a nuanced balanced account of these regimes. When they've been cast by an administration as our enemy, the nuance goes out the window," LeoGrande said.It remains to be seen whether Sanders' foreign policy views will hurt or help him in the primaries, or in the general election if he becomes the Democratic Party's nominee.
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